Re: [PERFORM] anyone tried to use hoard allocator?

2012-03-26 Thread Steve Atkins
On Mar 26, 2012, at 2:50 AM, Tomas Vondra wrote: > Hi all, > > today I've noticed this link on HN: http://plasma.cs.umass.edu/emery/hoard > > Seems like an interesting option for systems with a lot of CPUs that are > doing a lot of alloc operations. Right now I don't have a suitable system > to

Re: [PERFORM] anyone tried to use hoard allocator?

2012-03-26 Thread Pavel Stehule
2012/3/26 Tomas Vondra : > Hi all, > > today I've noticed this link on HN: http://plasma.cs.umass.edu/emery/hoard > > Seems like an interesting option for systems with a lot of CPUs that are > doing a lot of alloc operations. Right now I don't have a suitable system > to test it - anyone tried to b

[PERFORM] anyone tried to use hoard allocator?

2012-03-26 Thread Tomas Vondra
Hi all, today I've noticed this link on HN: http://plasma.cs.umass.edu/emery/hoard Seems like an interesting option for systems with a lot of CPUs that are doing a lot of alloc operations. Right now I don't have a suitable system to test it - anyone tried to benchmark it? Tomas -- Sent via p

[PERFORM] Determining working set size

2012-03-26 Thread Peter van Hardenberg
Baron Swartz's recent post [1] on working set size got me to thinking. I'm well aware of how I can tell when my database's working set exceeds available memory (cache hit rate plummets, performance collapses), but it's less clear how I could predict when this might occur. Baron's proposed method f